a good thursday morning. it is 4:30 a.m.. we're going to get to a check of your weather right off the top. christina, how are things looking? >> they're looking good. but things are always be looking good as we get closer to friday around here. starting out your day in the upper 50s for this thursday morning. it is chilly this morning in the north bay. half moon bay also in the 40s. an indication of the clear sky overhead. we are headed toward a warm afternoon similar to where we ended up yesterday and then tomorrow, we'll stay just about as warm by the weekend, though.

mike has the day off, he'll be back soon, i promise you you that much. i can tell you we're looking light right now as to be expected at 4:31 in the morning. want to tell you about an issue, keep this in mind, it won't cost you any extra time, but watch out if you proceed northbound on 87, curtner, right lane blocked. otherwise looking good so far. back to you. thank you very much. new this morning, three taliban suicide bombers targeted nato fuel trucks this morning. explosions destroyed 37 fuel trucks? t in the parking lot and triggered a gun battle with guards who managed to kill two of the attacker. a third blew himself up. a taliban spokesman has claimed responsibility. as militants battle their way toward baghdad, president obama is working to get washington politicians on board with a plan to save iraq without dragging the u.s. back into war.

the story developing this hour. this morning u.s. navy planes and drones are flying over iraq gathering intel. the white house says president obama is still considering whether to order air strikes and has not ruled out anything yet. expect u.s. combat troops on the ground except for that we should say. top democrats and republicans met with the president yesterday. some republicans are questioning whether he is taking the crisis seriously. >> while the president flies out on golf games and fund-raisers, the iranians are moving in. >> we're very intensely vetting each of the possibilities. >> so far sunni militants have taken five cities and are fighting for six more. despite yesterday's powerful attack, iraq's largest oil refinery is still believed to be under government control. but an iraqi official said exxon and bp have already started evacuating their workers. some lawmakers say the

unraveling of iraq makes them worry about what will happen when troops leave afghanistan by the end of 2016. critics of the president are concerned there will be a resurgence of the taliban there similar to what we're seeing with isis. the war in afghanistan has lasted more than a decade to date, cost billions of dollars and killed more than 2100 members of the u.s. military. a man killed just shy of graduating from college in san francisco will be giving a posthumous degree. steven grim was shot and killed when he accidently went into the wrong apartment in his building. they say the 68-year-old man who shot him was arrested, but later released. he will be honored at san francisco state university today. the bay area mom accused of choking a boy at her child's school will be in court in just a few hours. she's not charged with anything yet, she's accused of storming on to the campus of the school in santa rose and granting the throat of a boy she thought had

been bullying her daughter. a private investigator says another student saw the alleged victim choke himself to create red marks on his neck. fwar s today a san jose judge will hear from a man who insists he is the biological father of audrey pot. pot is the saratoga teen who committed suicide after she is sexually assaulted as a party. michael wants to be included in the wrongful death lawsuit and claims her legal parents falsely claimed her to be her soul heirs. the three boys are serving 30 to 45 days in juvenile jail. a bay area music teacher faces life in prison for reportedly inappropriately touching through young students at a performing arts school. 28-year-old moobrian butts was arrested last week. he was a guest instructor at music arts studio while the studio's owner was out of the country. when the owner returned, several

students told him about the alleged assault. >> on three occasions when the girls are by themselves, it wasn't like there were other students in the room, this fellow touched them inappropriately in the chest area. outside the clothing, but did touch and fondle them in the chest area. >> butts pleaded not guilty on monday. the students are between 13 and 15 years old. business owners and police are working on a plan to combat what is known as the oldest profession for women one of san francisco's hot spots. between 11:00 p.m. and 4:00 in the morning, numerous prostitutes walk the streets witnesses say they sometimes aggressive and it's bad for business and becoming dangerous for tourists. >> if you come in here from your wife and you're from omaha and you see rather obvious prostitutes, not exactly a fun thing. you already put up with the homeless. >> police say they want to clean up the square, but also want to help women who have been forced

into prostitution. all new this morning, investigators are trying to pig out if a fire in oakland was started on purpose. the fire burned bruushes in tre about the size of half a football field. several roads were temporarily shut down between court land and brooke dale avenues. the fire is several miles away from where crews have been patrolling the oakland hills. five separate fires broke out tuesday afternoon, all within a couple hours of each other. they think they were intentionally set. and the two others were started by embers. investigators say burn patterns suggest somebody may have even put gasoline on wood to get the fires going. investigators spent the night monitoring the shells of two homes that burned to the ground. would families are without homes this morning after a tree between them caught fire and those flames quickly spread. it happened on lantana drive.

homeowners could only watch. both houses total losses. one was operating as a daycare. >> at least our lives, we have our lives. and i think my neighbor's dog died. >> so hard for them to watch. remarkably there were no injuries. probably thanks in part to a man who was trimming a nearby tree when he saw the flames and knocked on doors warning people about that fire. >> i ran inside the house and got everybody out of the house. i pounded fire, fire. >> as previously mentioned by a neighbor, the dog who lived in one of those homes has still not been found. while firefighters battled that fire, another homeowner nearly got arrested trying to save his own home. joseph took a garden hose, climbed on top of his roof to try to spray his house down. firefighters threatened to arrest him for putting himself in danger, but he continued to

hose down his roof until the smoke became too thick. >> as soon as i got out of the house, i saw, i grabbed a hose and went right up. couldn't believe i got up on the roof so fast. >> his home it have some water damage and he was not arrested. at the scene, moreno told us he felt like he had to do something to save it. brushes with death a scary last several days. we'll turn to our micro climate forecast. you're looking at a live picture of san jose well before the sun comes up. christina, it's been dangerous, scary to watch from afar. here is a live picture of the bay bridge. what kind of conditions are you expecting today, concerned about more fires? >> no, actually, when we get our wind arrows pointsing from land to sea, that is when we have the drying out pattern. but this morning, the wind direction has shifted. albeit the winds are stronger

whenever you do have wind in the area and a fire breaks out, it's problematic. but i can tell you the moist ocean air will keep the hillsides from drying out. as we head through at least the next couple days. this is something that we monitor day by day because things do chain very rapidly around the bay area. so let's talk about thursday. we're so close to friday now and we have a good looking weekend shaping up for you. comfortable conditions out doors. starting out in the fifth headed towards another pretty warm afternoon. but, hey, if you're like me, you probably got by without having that ac for most of the day yesterday. i only had to have it running for a few hours. 84 degrees just about the same as where we ended up on wednesday. 66 for san francisco today, 87 in the north bay. as we head through tomorrow, staying warm. and then we'll start to see those conditions change as we dive into your weekend. temperatures will dive, as well. we'll talk about that coming up. right now, let's talk about your drive. you know if you wake up and head you out the front door at this hour, it's typically pretty

light. told you about this earlier, it's now clearing. an northbound 87 at curtner, the right lane still blocked but they should have it cleared in the next 15, 20 minutes. we'll keep you up-to-date. back to you sam and laura. still to come, here's something people weren't liking on facebook, an overnight outage. annoyed users worldwide. plus history being made on the links, an 11-year-old girl from the bay area tees off at the u.s. women's open. we'll tell you how she's doing so far.

thursday morning, a live look outside. a beautiful bay bridge. look at the span there this morning. we'll check your forecast coming up. 4:43. new this morning, spain welcomes a new king sworn in.

felipe 6 on avi will take over thrown from his father. he's expected to face tough challenges from the country emerges from a deep economic crisis. today house republicans will elect a replacement to eric cantor. it was the first time a majority leader has lost in a primary election. kevin mccarthy is considered the frontrunner to replace cantor. today san francisco archbishop is scheduled to speak at a march for marriage rally in washington, d.c.. this comes as local catholics as well as leaders like gavin newsome and mark leno urged him not to intend. the archbishop says the rally doesn't go against gay marriage, simply a pro marriage march. over 30,000 people signed the petition asking he not go.

aes beast bay leaders will state leaders to pass the switch kill bill. the kill switch is designed to keep thieves from stealing smartphone. the bill already passed in the state senate. it's scheduled for one more committee vote next week. new this morning, facebook is back up this morning after an international outage that lasted for about 30 minutes. people certainly noticed. they took to twitter to talk about the social media site's malfunction until it came back on line at about 1:30 this morning. the company is not saying what caused the outage. facebook has had some problems before, but this one seemed to be more widespread. the website and mobile services were down here in the u.s. and numerous european countries in parts of asia, i said i canndia. amazon is firing up the smartphone market. let's turn to jackie deangelis

at cnbc. >> we're watching the futures here. a little mixed at the moment after stocks rallied on wednesday following the latest fed decision. the fed says the economy has rebounded in recent months and that the labor market is improving although it did highlight it still remains slow. the fed signaling interest rates hey start to rise next year, but will continue to stay low at least for a while. today we'll get some data on unemployment and manufacturing. so watch for that.dow rising 98 points. close to dow 17,000. nasdaq up 25 points to 4362. that was a 14 year high for the nasdaq. meantime two u.s. senators are propose to go raise the federal gas and diesel taxes for the first time in more than two decades. congress struggling to come up with ways to pay for highway and public transit programs. the plan would hike the gas and diesel taxes by 12 cents each over the next two years and the taxes would then be linked to inflation. law may goer e makers are conce

the trust fund which is set to go broke late august. and amazon has a 4.7 inch screen, it can project 3dlike images. the fire phone comes with 12 fremonts of amazon prime and live tech support and has a new feature that allows users to use the camera to identify products and buy them on amazon. the phone starting at 199.99 with a two year contract. you can get it at at&t. >> screens keep getting bigger and better. it's a competition. 4:47 on your thursday morning. let's take a look at what's going on outside. >> good morning to you at home. good looking day shaping up. just about as warm as where we ended up yesterday. but you know what, we're close to the weekend now and that is wh the cooldown kicks in. when you are at home. that's when you want the cooler

weather. otherwise we're looking pretty good. i can tell you right now our air quality is not suffering this time of year. we typically do see that. the wind has been helping us out in that department. yesterday, we saw those winds drop off as of this morning, they are intensifying again. but i can tell you the wind direction has shifted and you're seeing all your arrows at this point coming off of the ocean which is that cool pacific air. let me give you an idea. out here over the water, the air temperature is like 56 degrees, maybe up to 57 degrees at best. you get that westerly flow and as that cool ocean air coming inland, it keeps our temperatures from soaring about so that that's why we'll be in the 80s as opposed to the 90s with high pressure still firmly in place. 82 degrees for the peninsula today, 66 in san francisco. and the north bay, 87 degrees is nice. cloverdale will hit 91, 90 in livermore. and gilroy, the same for you. but peninsula, warm spot is palo

alto at 83. not too bad. definitely bearable. let me show you where we're headed after all the weekend is close. you can see temperatures will level off a little bit for saturday and sunday and then we'll drop you off toward the end of the week. overall looking good. you'll notice close to 90 inland, but 10 to 15 degrees cooler coastal spots. coming up, we'll talk about some of the events happening across the bay area. back to you. nice weather to go outside and maybe take your pets out. and it turns out starting on monday, dogs will be able to run free at mountain view parks sort of. >> a pilot program goes in to effect at six parks city wide. you can see them here on this map. the parks will have designated off leash area, bu but hours wie restricted. many pet owners welcome the change while others not so sure. >> depending on the people are

responsible enough. >> i assume people know that if their dog is being annoying to children, put them on leash. >> there are signs going up this week. city leaders say they encourage people to call in if they have problems with any dogs or any complaints. here fido. we're in the midst of history on the links. lucy li taking part in her first u.s. women's open. >> her first because she's only 11 years old. li is from red wood shores, the youngest competitor to ever qualify for this prestigious tournament. li says she got her start watching her brother on the driving range and as far as the pressure about being on the big stage, li says bring it on. >> what do you think of playing in front of crowds and getting attention? do you like that? >> i think i like crowds. they don't bother me. i play better the more people that come watch me. so, yeah, i'm really excited,

though. >> is there anything about this week that makes you thefsh nerv. >> not really. >> they say more people watching you you perform better. so kudos to her. pigtails and all. she teed off in the last 45 minutes or so and so far she's two over through two holes. still ahead, team usa's chances of beating portugal could be better. we'll tell you why. >> plus chaos at a world cup stadium as fans break through security trying to, quote, sneak into the game. see who is sneaking around this morning as we take a live look outside. traffic already picking up a little bit. it's 4:51 approaching the 5:00 hour.

welcome back. 4:54 on your thursday. a live look at the coliseum. the as in sole possession of the best record in baseball. they beat the rangers 4-2 last night. they welcome in the red sox in town tonight. in the meantime, giants who were the best team in baseball have now lost eight of their last nine games. they fell to the white sox 7-6 yesterday. to add insult to injury, angel

pagan is undergoing more tests for tight ths in his back. on the bright side, brandon belt is inching closer to returning to the team. he took swings in the batting cage yesterday and giants suffered no set backs after breaking his thumb last month. the giants nemesis clayton kershaw can add a no hitter to his resume. >> he's such a nice guy. kershaw was in full effect last night. he struck out a career-high 15 batters. 8-0 win over the rockies. but that was not the most notable element of the night. there was a blemish, a throwing error by ramirez cost him a perfect game, but the dodgers did get the no hitter nonetheless. they have the only two no hitters in the entire baseball arena this season. a blow for portugal could be the united states's best defense come sunday. doctors are warning their star forward to sit out the rest of the world cup or risk permanent

damage to his left knee. these photos show him limping off the practice field. his knee was wrapped in ice. renaldo told him doctor, quote, i'm the one who decides if i'm playing or not. >> and ubl the one losing all that money and prestige in you don't get to play again. which would be problematic. we will have to wait until sunday to find out, kickoff at 3:00. yesterday's showdown between shane shapain and chile was sol out, but it did not stop fans from rushing in to a large media and breaking down a make shift wall. fans thought they could get through to the stance. they were wrong. police arrested about 85 of them. >> chile went on to stun spain 2-0 eliminating the defending world country champion from contention. a lot of talk about that. >> big upset there. let's take a look at your

roadways. good morning. mike has the day off. but he'll be back before you know it. we miss mike. we have a good looking drive right now. no major accidents to report. and really all the construction, all that early morning road work that we're so accustomed to, wrapping right on time this morning. that's a good sign. so far so good. a lot of green on that map and no transit delays just yet. we'll let you know if they crop up. back to you. 4:57. still to come, judgment day for bay area mom accused of choking a student at school. why she might not be facing charges after all. plus a tree trimmer saves the gay in sunnyvale. how he was able to help rescue folks from burning homes.

new this morning, oakland firefighters trying to figure out if a late night brush fire is suspicious. the latest on the investigation

coming up. plus pg&e rates on the rise. how much more you could soon be paying the utility company. and good thursday morning to you. your wind direction has shifted overnight. we're getting more of that ocean air moving inland. nonetheless high pressure still in control. i'll let you know when the heat will break in your micro climate weather forecast. >> yefr lookioverlooking the bey bridge all illuminated on this thursday, june 19. this is today in the bay. a very good morning to you. thanks so much for joining us. >> the bay area mom accused of choking a boy at her child's school will be in court this just 00 few short hours. dalia garcia has not been